ISIS launches an attack on the Qadam neighborhood in south Damascus, amid clashes with the regime’s forces

Published : 13-03-2018

ISIS in south Damascus launched a violent attack on the Qadam neighborhood, which is adjacent to Yarmouk camp and Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, ISIS’s stronghold. This came after the threats ISIS launched, in the event of consent of the neighborhood’s residents and the opposition factions to implement an agreement with the Syrian regime, which allows them to leave to Idlib in north Syria, where more than three thousand civilians live in the neighborhood under the regime’s siege, since lae 2002.

Our correspondent said that violent clashes are taking place between the Syrian regime forces and its affiliated groups and ISIS, in the Qadam neighborhood, amid reports that ISIS has taken control of the Port Said Garage. Three members of the Syrian regime forces have been killed.

Our correspondent reported based on eye-witness accounts, the exit of a tank belonging to the regime forces from the Sufian Revolutionary barracks, affiliated to the regime in Al-Qaa neighborhood, and headed in the direction of the fighting in the Qadam neighborhood.

Media outlets loyal to the Syrian regime said that ISIS targeted, with several mortar shells, the areas controlled by the factions and the Palestinian coalition forces - loyal to the regime - in Yarmouk camp and the Zahera Al-Qadema area, confirming that the regime forces launched air raids on Al-Hajar Al-Aswad and Al-Qadam axes.

ISIS is in control of the neighborhoods of Yarmouk camp, Al-Assaly, Al-Tadamon and Al-Hajar Al-Aswad since 2015. This has led to the isolation of the Qadam neighborhood from the towns of south Damascus; Yelda, Babilla and Beit Sahm, which is controlled by the armed opposition factions.

ISIS in south Damascus launched a violent attack on the Qadam neighborhood, which is adjacent to Yarmouk camp and Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, ISIS’s stronghold. This came after the threats ISIS launched, in the event of consent of the neighborhood’s residents and the opposition factions to implement an agreement with the Syrian regime, which allows them to leave to Idlib in north Syria, where more than three thousand civilians live in the neighborhood under the regime’s siege, since lae 2002.

Our correspondent said that violent clashes are taking place between the Syrian regime forces and its affiliated groups and ISIS, in the Qadam neighborhood, amid reports that ISIS has taken control of the Port Said Garage. Three members of the Syrian regime forces have been killed.

Our correspondent reported based on eye-witness accounts, the exit of a tank belonging to the regime forces from the Sufian Revolutionary barracks, affiliated to the regime in Al-Qaa neighborhood, and headed in the direction of the fighting in the Qadam neighborhood.

Media outlets loyal to the Syrian regime said that ISIS targeted, with several mortar shells, the areas controlled by the factions and the Palestinian coalition forces - loyal to the regime - in Yarmouk camp and the Zahera Al-Qadema area, confirming that the regime forces launched air raids on Al-Hajar Al-Aswad and Al-Qadam axes.

ISIS is in control of the neighborhoods of Yarmouk camp, Al-Assaly, Al-Tadamon and Al-Hajar Al-Aswad since 2015. This has led to the isolation of the Qadam neighborhood from the towns of south Damascus; Yelda, Babilla and Beit Sahm, which is controlled by the armed opposition factions.